Posted
by
timothy
on Friday March 26, 2010 @07:50PM
from the don't-forget-deaf-culture dept.

destinyland writes "One in 12 men suffers from colorblindness, though '[t]he good news here is that these folks are simply missing a patch of DNA ... which is just the kind of challenge this Millennium is made for. Enter science.' But NPR's Moira Gunn (from Biotech Nation) now asks a provocative question. Is it wrong to cure colorblindness? She reports on an experiment that used a virus to introduce corrective DNA into colorblind monkeys. ('It took 20 weeks, but eventually the monkeys started distinguishing between red and green.') Then she asks, could it be viewed differently? 'Are we trying to 'normalize' humans to a threshold of experience?'"

It's not all puppies and kittens. When I asked my wife for my gray towel, she looked at me quite puzzled. It was shortly thereafter that the mystery of why her husband was using a purple towel was solved.

Sexual preference and skin color are not disabilities. They don't prevent anyone from doing anything.
Someone with color blindness is physically incapable of doing something that a large majority of people can do.

I think a cure for guidoness is something we must find now, not later. The people with this disorder dye themselves orange, and are by all accounts mentally handicapped. This is not something we should let happen to our fellow humans.

Tell me, do the laser cannons automatically come with the packaged shark/s? I have had problems assembling parts in these kind of situations before, so it would also be nice to know if the shark comes pre-attached to the laser, or if any soldering is required.

We should be talking about curing my non-existent sense of smell too:-(

At least with color blindness people go "oh, how many fingers am I holding up?", but you tell someone you have no sense of smell, they go off and consume the most vile crap they can find just to let rip with a dirty sloppy arsed fart in the interests of testing the aforementioned anosmia. Now don't get me wrong, the entire planet smells exactly the same to me no matter my location, but farting on me...

It's not all puppies and kittens. When I asked my wife for my gray towel, she looked at me quite puzzled. It was shortly thereafter that the mystery of why her husband was using a purple towel was solved.

That's like the time I found out my brown pants are actually a shade of green. I knew I was a little colorblind but still. And who the fuck wears green pants (except for me apparently) ?